After a cooking accident left her with burns covering most of her face, Bonnie Norman decided to share photos of her healing process on Reddit, in order to educate others on the resilience of the skin.

As Yahoo! reports, Norman was working in the kitchen at a Fort Worth, Texas-based bakery when a "tray full of hot sugar glaze" splashed onto her skin. As anyone who's ever attempted to make homemade caramel knows, sugar gets extremely hot — and the accident left Norman with painful, second-degree burns all over her chin, nose, cheeks, and forehead. After receiving treatment at a hospital, Norman began taking pictures of her skin to document the (slow) healing process. She later shared four of these images on Reddit, writing, "Skin is amazing. I suffered facial burns in a work accident and here is my healing process in pictures."

The first image, taken shortly after the accident, shows the immediate damage inflicted by the hot sugar glaze — mostly redness and obvious irritation. In the second photo, Norman’s skin is far more raw-looking, with blisters and scabs on her nose, chin, and lips. The third image is similar, though slightly more healed; and the final photo shows Norman’s skin now — slightly pink in some areas, but on the whole, back to normal.

As Norman explained to Yahoo!, she decided to share the photos on Reddit because she "found the healing process so interesting and amazing. The drastic improvement in the photos really shocked me," she added.

Of course, Norman was lucky, all things considered: As she wrote on Reddit, "I've lost some eyebrow, but the burns weren't deep enough to harm the hair follicles." She also managed to avoid getting any of the hot sugar on her eyes, and was able to let her skin heal itself naturally without any surgeries or grafts.

It's super interesting to see how fully her skin healed — and Reddit agrees: Since posting five days ago, Norman’s thread already has more than 300 comments. Still, burns can be way more severe than this, so always exercise caution around open flames, hot materials, and — of course! — direct sunlight (read up on our fave SPFs here).